Basketball Quotes

"My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball"

"In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!"

Zac Efron, Actor

"For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line"

Bo Jackson, Athlete

"We've got to play better basketball"

Tim Buckley, Musician

"I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns"

John Leonard, Poet

"The 76ers currently play very good basketball, and we don't. However, we are still only one win behind them. If we continue to improve, we should be on the top of our division at the end of the regular season"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"Then I went to UCLA - so of course I became a huge Bruin basketball fan... and later came to football"

Leigh Steinberg, Businessman

"If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in"

David Duchovny, Actor

"Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play"

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Actor

"I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I've got a basketball signed by all the greats from Julius Irving to Oscar Robinson. It was at an All Star game I got them all to sign it. So that ain't going nowhere. I'm going to die with that in my casket"

Ice Cube, Musician

"Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"A lot of late nights in the gym, a lot of early mornings, especially when your friends are going out, you're going to the gym, those are the sacrifices that you have to make if you want to be an NBA basketball player"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"The business always gets in the way of basketball"

Jason Kidd, Athlete

"I'm pretty athletic and I play basketball a lot"

Jay Hernandez, Actor

"But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single"

Wilt Chamberlain, Athlete

"When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"The cast gets along pretty well, it's a good work environment. I hang out a lot with Brett Claywell, he plays Tim Smith on the show. We play plenty of basketball"

James Lafferty, Actor

"To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now"

Holly Johnson, Musician

"I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"One thing you can't beat in this world is time. I learnt that the hard way. You can't play basketball forever. You can't play football forever. You can't bodybuild forever. I mean you CAN do it, but not at a high level against younger guys who have more time and have not reached their peaks yet. There's only so much the body can do and once you're done, you can't go back in time"

Ronnie Coleman, Athlete

"I want to be known as a winner. That's all that matters to me"

Anthony Edwards, Athlete

"I just love to play basketball. It's my passion"

Anthony Edwards, Athlete

"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up"

Red Auerbach, Coach

"Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking"

Rick Fox, Actor

"Yeah, I like cars and basketball. But you know what I like more? Bananas"

Frankie Muniz, Actor

"Not only is Rip Hamilton an outstanding basketball player, he is also known for giving back to his community"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"I've done a lot of basketball drills, not a whole lot of competitive stuff. I have basically been in the gym everyday working on my game, working on the time off that I've had from the game, just getting myself prepared mentally and physically for the season"

Grant Hill, Athlete

"You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore"

Oscar Robertson, Athlete

"I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen"

Oscar Robertson, Athlete

"I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it"

Julius Erving, Athlete

"I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey"

Steven Chu, Scientist

"We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically"

Alan Thicke, Actor

"Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing"

Dominique Wilkins, Athlete

"I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

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